Word: generality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fatalist. I don't think anything scares me. There's no great way to die. My general attitude is to attack life, and you can't attack if you're frightened. Besides, my pilots are the best, and I pay whatever it takes. When it comes to pilots, doctors, accountants, I don't chisel...
SMOKING: EVERYTHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY NEED TO KNOW (HBO, Jan. 11, 12, 14, 17). First appearing on the day that Surgeon General C. Everett Koop releases his new report on smoking, this half-hour special dramatically exposes the dangers of tobacco usage, while contrasting old TV cigarette commercials with patients' case histories...
...modify his directive. The judge turned him down last week, leaving the prosecutor with little alternative to dropping the theft and conspiracy counts. The dismissal of those charges makes it virtually certain that Walsh will withdraw similar accusations against former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, retired Air Force General Richard Secord and businessman Albert Hakim, though they too still face a range of charges such as obstructing Congress and offering illegal gratuities to North...
...that we continue to have a significant number of students who get into trouble because of their drinking, but I don't know if you could say that alcohol in general is a problem," she said...
Drought. Floods. Famine. Disease. Civil war. How could the situation in Sudan get worse? Last week it did, as workers staged a general strike that closed the airport in Khartoum and shut down most telephone and telex lines. Rumors of coup attempts swept the capital as angry demonstrators took to the streets demanding the head of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi...